STATE OF MICHIGAN

99TH LEGISLATURE

REGULAR SESSION OF 2017

Introduced by Reps. LaFave, Bellino and Runestad

ENROLLED HOUSE BILL No. 4575

AN ACT to amend 1961 PA 236, entitled “An act to revise and consolidate the statutes relating to the organization and jurisdiction of the courts of this state; the powers and duties of the courts, and of the judges and other officers of the courts; the forms and attributes of civil claims and actions; the time within which civil actions and proceedings may be brought in the courts; pleading, evidence, practice, and procedure in civil and criminal actions and proceedings in the courts; to provide for the powers and duties of certain state governmental officers and entities; to provide remedies and penalties for the violation of certain provisions of this act; to repeal all acts and parts of acts inconsistent with or contravening any of the provisions of this act; and to repeal acts and parts of acts,” by amending section 2534 (MCL 600.2534), as amended by 2006 PA 506.

The People of the State of Michigan enact:

Sec. 2534. (1) For publishing a legal notice or an order, citation, summons, advertisement, or other matter arising out of judicial proceedings required by law to be published in a newspaper, except as provided in subsection (2), the cost must not exceed the rate of $20.50 per folio for the first publication and $8.45 per folio for each subsequent publication. A minimum cost of $59.00 is allowed for a notice that must be published 2 times or more, and a minimum cost of $44.00 is allowed for a notice that must be published 1 time.

(2) For publications after the effective date of the 2017 public act that amended this section, the department of treasury shall adjust the rates described in subsection (1) to reflect the percentage increase in the United States consumer price index from March 1, 2008 to June 1, 2017 and, annually each year from March 1, 2018 to March 1, 2025, shall further adjust the rates by the percentage increase in the United States consumer price index for the preceding calendar year. The result of an adjustment under this subsection must be rounded to the nearest multiple of 5 cents.

(3) A newspaper that publishes an advertisement for this state other than a tax list may charge for the advertisement its regular established commercial rate in effect at the time the advertisement is published.

(4) A newspaper that accepts for publication a legal or public notice as provided by law shall not charge higher rates or collect higher rates for political notices or political advertising than it charges for commercial advertising of the same or similar size.

Enacting section 1. This amendatory act takes effect 90 days after the date it is enacted into law.

This act is ordered to take immediate effect.

Clerk of the House of Representatives

Secretary of the Senate

Approved

Governor